Did end up watching it (I’ve always enjoyed PMG vids and Quinns). In a way I see it, I just don’t quite fully understand why the onus is on Valve. If valve was directly running the gambling sites, that would be one thing. I would give them flack for accepting sponsorships for dota with some of them. Though it’s a similar vein to sport kings advertisements on shows and such.
Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day agoI’d highly recommend you check out People Make Games’ videos on Counter-Strike gambling, which include testimonials from child gambling addicts. And if you still need more convincing, there’s also some videos by Coffeezilla.
But I’d also like to see more companies held accountable for this than just Valve.
LegitimateEngineer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Even before you get to the reseller sites that Valve is definitely aware of, benefiting from, and doing nothing to stop, the way the system is intended to work is still using all of the tricks out of the slot machine playbook.
SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is it fair to say they’re “doing nothing to stop it”? They have indeed been shutting banning users for this, according to themselves millions of them.
Not saying it’s enough, but it’s hardly nothing.
LegitimateEngineer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is true, but most things digital do the same thing if I remember correctly. I think rocket league with free loot boxes does that.
LegitimateEngineer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
piefed.social/…/video-game-pegi-age-ratings-are-c…
To follow-up I found this post and feel like this is more the way to attack it possibly.
pizza_the_hutt@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
How exactly are the children buying stuff in the first place? Me thinks the parents play a role in this…
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You can buy gift cards for Steam from the drug store or Walmart with cash, and there are many non-gambling ways to spend money on Steam.
pizza_the_hutt@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
And the kids are getting the cash from?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Far more sources than just a credit card. You can sell something from home during lunch period to another student for enough money to buy a Steam gift card, and their parents would never know.